The report showed wide regional variations in the number of Syrian refugees resettled in each local authority between October 2015 and March 2016.
Comprehensive statistics from ACT policing shows wide variations in the number of incidents of each of the 58 separate classes of domestic violence-related crimes.
The EAL picture in England is complicated, with huge variations in the number of EAL learners in different parts of the country.
Most birds have four toes, the fifth being always absent, but there are many variations in the number of digits, or phalanges, representing reductions of the basic arrangement.
Even more noticeable than variations in the number of volumes in encyclopaedias has been an even greater variation in the average lengths of articles within those volumes.
■ Worryingly wide variations in the number of consultants in different parts of England, with 48 per 100,000 children aged 0-15 in London, but just 27 per 100,000 in the east of England.
"There are big variations in the number of people receiving this in different parts of the country," says Isden. "Different areas have responded differently to the financial pressures that they face.
But P. & G. found that even small variations in the number of diapers sold by retailers led to wild swings in the number of diapers that it was making and that distributors had on hand.
Citizen scientists will help find any geographical variations in the number of eggs laid and young fledged, possible causes of nest failure and any changes in nest failures since the eye disease began.
In fact, he said, there were wide variations in the number of nonvotes in counties using optical scanners, just as there were in counties using punch cards, and there was no proof of a relationship between the two.
These differences would have led to large variations in the number of patients to be screened.
